Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with the Government’s decisions in relation to local retention of Local Property Tax (LPT), my Department notified Dublin City Council of revised LPT allocations of €53,728,544 and €50,661,430 for 2015 and 2016, respectively. These allocations take into account the passing of resolutions by the elected members to reduce the basic rate of LPT by 15% in each year. As a result of the local retention of LPT, Dublin City Council, along with a number of other local authorities, received a greater level of LPT funding in 2015 and 2016 compared to the level of funding received from General Purpose Grants in 2014.

Accordingly, in 2015, Dublin City Council was required to self-fund some services in Housing and Roads areas to the value of €46,928,249, thereby replacing Central Government funding for some of these services. In 2016, the self-funding requirement was €43,861,135.

It is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of the annual budgetary process having regard to both locally identified needs and available resources. It is therefore a matter for Dublin City Council to decide how to spend the remainder of the LPT allocation in this context. The elected members of a local authority have direct responsibility in law for all reserved functions of the authority, which includes adopting the annual budget, and are democratically accountable for all expenditure by the local authority.

The LPT allocations to Dublin City Council along with details of allocations in each local authority area are published, as a matter of course, on my Department’s website at the following link:

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